{"id":43028,"date":"2023-10-20T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/university-of-nsws-startup-games-program-open-for-applications-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:25:34","slug":"university-of-nsws-startup-games-program-open-for-applications-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/university-of-nsws-startup-games-program-open-for-applications-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"University of NSW\u2019s Startup Games program open for applications &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/l_unsw-445.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_unsw-445\"><\/div>\n<p>Applications for the University of New South Wales\u2019s New South Innovations Startup Games have opened, seeking students keen to learn entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The program, facilitated by entrepreneur Bart Jellema, involves six full-day workshops covering topics including start-up equity, legal, pitching, business plans, outsourcing, financials and sales.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Josh Flannery, student entrepreneur development manager, told <i>StartupSmart<\/i> the program was a feeder into New South Innovations\u2019 broader programs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He says applicants don\u2019t need to come with ready-made business ideas. The program will aim to match applicants with others to form teams to develop a start-up and prepare them to pitch to investors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Flannery adds that aside from the attraction of running your own business, being part of the program could also improve students\u2019 job prospects when they graduate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey may or may not go on to be an entrepreneur but when they\u2019re standing in a queue of a job at a corporate they\u2019ve got this experience others may not have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The program, sponsored by Google, Elance, ATPi, and Castaway Forecasting, is limited to 20 people with applications closing on March 6 and the program starting on March 8.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s Games produced several companies including Conscious Step, Meetisan.com and Forcite Helmet Systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Applications can be sent to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications for the University of New South Wales\u2019s New South Innovations Startup Games have opened, seeking students keen to learn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}